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GNOME 2 to Replace CDE As Solaris Default DE

Posted by timothy on from the hey-where-are-all-the-mourners dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews had a quick chat with John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the web services competition and more. In the interview, Fowler reveals the timing in which Gnome2 will become the default desktop environment: Solaris 10, which is expected to have its first beta later in 2003. This is a huge step for Gnome2 in the UNIX world, as it will be replacing CDE for good as the default desktop environment (betas of Gnome 2 for Solaris 8/9 already exist) and becoming a standard part of the large operating environment with millions of installations worldwide. Additionally, Sun is now pushing developers on coding on either GTK+ 2.x or Java (they have in fact revealed plans on creating GTK+ bindings for Java which will make all future Solaris apps look like alike)."

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  1. Hats Off To The GNOME Developers! by rootmon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey guys, you finally did it! I was a KDE user myself since the alpha stage of KDE 1.0. I tried GNOME a few times, but it always seemed more tempermental and less responsive than KDE. However, when I upgraded to KDE 2.0 and it took forever to start a desktop session and KDE apps were taking longer to launch than before, so I gave GNOME a try again. I was impressed but it still seemed to lack KDE's stability and consistency. I upgraded over the last year to KDE 3, which was a disappointment. The performance/responsiveness has worsened and the stability has taken a turn for the worse. For the first time I find myself preferring GNOME for the same reasons I chose KDE before: performance, stability, and consistency. The stability of the MetalCity WindowManager seems to have made an impressive difference and the applets, panel, etc are much improved. The GNOME developers also took to heart some feedback when Sun sponsored the GNOME Usability Study a while back.
    Now am I knocking KDE? Not by any means- as a C++ programmer I prefer programming for KDE. But when you're at the top there's no where to go but down, and that applied well to the KDE project. Besides, I think it's great to see a strong GNOME and KDE... because in the Free Software Movement we prefer competition which inspires innovation. If KDE wasn't so awesome from 1999-2001 then the GNOME project wouldn't have been quite as motivated and I expect GNOME 2's success will spur more inspiration on the part of the KDE project. I look forward to comparing GNOME 3 and KDE 4 in the future!

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    "As flies to the wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport." - William Shakespeare, King Lear
  2. Finally! by aivic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All I can say is FINALLY... I have lots of ignorant friends who do computer science at university and because our dumb terminals use CDE as its Window Manager..... They immediately get turned off from any *NIX Platform... saying its ugly and gay!!!

    CDE is probably one of the most ugliest DE I have ever seen.... Sorry for the negative comments but I really hate CDE!

  3. Huh? by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    So, are you saying that trolltech would have a lot more customers if they didn't charge any money?

    Fascinating...

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.